H.—ll.

SUMMARY—continued. Table 2— continued.

* These hands are also employed as attendants. These figures do not include the various Government railway workshops and the Government Printing Office in Wellington. t, . . , .... • _ , 1905-6. 1906-7. Increase, total number of factories registered .. .. .. 9,881 10,788 907 The total number of workrooms shown in statistics above is 11,047. The actual number of factories is 10,788, comprising in 259 cases more than one trade. m_ , , , , , , ,• , . 1905-6. 1906-7. Increase, total number of hands employed in factories registered .. 70,403 75,310 4,907

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Number of Persons Employed, including Occupiers. .Trades. Number of Workrooms. Total Wages paid during Year. Male. Female. Total. Miscellaneous Trades —continued. Carpet-sewing and quilt-making Cattle-food manufacturing Chaff and firewood cutting and corn-crushing Chemicals, drugs, and patent-medicines manufacturing.. Cigarette, cigar, and tobacco manufacturing Cork-cutting and bark-milling Dc.-.tistry (mochinicl) Dyeing, cleaning, and feather-dressing Engraving and electro-plating Fellmongering, wool-scouring, ftc. Fibrous-plaster making Fire-kindler and fly-paper manufacturing Fireproof-wall making Fireworks-manufacturing Flax milling and dressing Flock-milling Fly-dressing and artificial-minnow making Gas, coke, and coal-tar manufacturing Glass bevelling ar.d silvering .. Glue-manufacturing Gum sorting and packing Hair-working (wigs, ftc.) Incandescent-lamp mantle-making Ink-manufacturing Lamp making and repairing Lapidary work Laundry-work (European) Laundry-work (Chinese) Lead-light working and window-glazing Lime and cement manufacturing Manure-manufacturing Mat and toy making .. Monumental masonry Oil canning and packing Optical and scientific instrument manufacturing Organ-building and piano and musical-instrument making and repairing Paint and varnish and ornamental sign and ticket manufacturing Paper-bag and cardboard-box making Paper-milling Photography Picture-frame making Pneumatic tires, tire-covers, and rubber-goods Printing, bookbinding, and stationery manufacturing .. Pumice-grinding Rag-sorting, bottle-cleaning, &e. Rope and twine manufacturing Sails, tents, flags, and oilskin-clothing manufacturing (not including ship-yards) Seed-cleaning and wool-dumping Sheep-dip manufacturing Soap, starch, washing-powder, and soda-crystals manufacturing Stone quarrying and crushing Watch and jewellery manufacturing Wax-vesta manufacturing 4 1 96 37 19 4 170 30 21 107 13 2 1 1 281 4 1 36 2 1 36 9 2 2 1 8 179 125 16 19 24 9 32 3 6 13 4 2 250 139 37 6 474 78 70 1,675 62 6 3 1 3,036 16 2 741 11 2 225 14 2 6 2 26 139 243 53 293 213 28 160 12 19 60 12 1 84 64 84* 33 2 2 1 6 2 18 20 1 979 3 1 16 2 251 223 101 6 558 111 72 1,675 62 8 3 1 3,036 17 8 741 11 2 227 32 22 7 2 26 1,118 246 54 293 213 41 160 12 19 60 £ 454 188 12,019 12,042 3,065 4 21587 4,486 2,865 133,564 3,542 178 243 Occupier. 151,313 949 204 95,944 935 131 17,891 834 918 237 130 856 31,996 2,366 1,765 32,228 15,425 1,391 11,962 202 1,191 4,712 13 23 69 4 73 3,469 14 4 111 57 3 276 1 6 11 38 64 72 213 134 11 2,812 21 39 162 148 144 10 204 4 208 82 417 138 11 3,479 21 41 170 195 9,159 5,201 15,694 4,394 541 315,904 820 805 9,240 12,301 667 2 8 47 69 3 26 302 8 206 16 "24 318 8 230 23,549 230 17,203 25 196 2 277 716 28 7 166 277 723 194 16,385 39,679 9,974 Totals .. 11,047 58,216 17,094 76,310 4,831,037